WELCOME TO THE
2024/25 SEASON!
Humbie Village Hall, Humbie, EH36 5PJ
All films start at 8.00 pm. Doors open 7.30 pm (refreshments available)
Annual membership is £30. Guest tickets £5 on the night.
To mark the start of our 22nd season, please join us for a complementary glass of bubbly (with or without alcohol) and canapés to celebrate the start of
Humbie Box Office 2024/25 Season.
Friday, 27th September. Doors open slightly earlier at 7pm & film starts at 8pm.
UPCOMING FILMS
THE OLD OAK
Friday, 27th September
UK 2023 - Cert 15 - 1hr 52 mins
Director: Ken Loach
The Old Oak is the last remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne, the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice.
In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes - and addresses some highly topical issues.
ANATOMY OF A FALL
Friday, 1st November
France 2023 (part subtitles) - Cert 15 - 2 hr 31 mins
Director: Justine Triet
A legal drama, the story begins when Samuel is found dead in the snow outside the isolated chalet where he lived with his wife Sandra, a German writer, and their partially-sighted 11-year-old son Daniel. An investigation leads to a conclusion of "suspicious death": it's impossible to know for sure whether he took his own life or was killed. Sandra is indicted, and we follow her trial which pulls the couple's relationship apart. Daniel is caught in the middle: between the trial and their home life, doubts take their toll on the mother-son relationship.
Warning : This film contains strong language and bloody images.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Friday, 29th November
UK/US 2023 (subtitles) - Cert 12A - 1hr 45 mins
Director: Jonathan Glazer
German-occupied Poland, summer of 1943. Hedwig, an indefatigable mother of five, wants to keep her well-organised life as is. If only her husband, the distinguished SS officer and Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss, weren't always burdened by his duties. As the oblivious life of the commandant's wife unravels in cloudless bliss, Rudolf finds himself swamped with work. Indeed, it's hard to imagine that just a hair's breadth away from the peaceful and idyllic Höss household, the unimaginable horrors of the Final Solution were unfolding in full swing. Described as 'masterful and chilling’ the film won two Academy Awards at the Oscars 2024, and is loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis.
THE HOLDOVERS
Friday, 13th December
US 2023 - Cert 15 - 2hr 13 mins
Director: Alexander Payne
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break 1970, to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student remains - a trouble-making 15-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behaviour always threatens to get him expelled. Joining them is head cook Mary who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. In this comedy drama these three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures.
PAST LIVES
Friday, 31st January
US 2023 (some subtitles) - Cert 12A - 1hr 45 mins
Director: Celine Song
Following two childhood friends over the course of 24 years as they grow apart, living different lives. Na Young moves to Canada and then to New York with her parents. Hae Sung continues living in Korea, does his engineering course, goes through a short spell of military service and then takes up a job. Meanwhile in New York, Na has changed her name to Nora, made a name as a playwright and is happily married to Arthur, an American. Hae visits Nora in New York where he spends some time with her and Arthur. Romantic drama written and directed by Celine Song in her feature directorial debut. The plot is semi-autobiographical and inspired by real events from Song's life.
THE FALL GUY
Friday, 28th February
US 2024 - Cert 12A - 2hr 06 mins
Director: David Leitch
A daredevil movie stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
What could possibly go right?
Action comedy drama staring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
POOR THINGS
Friday, 28th March
UK/US 2023 - Cert 18 - 2hr 21 mins
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
A dark comedy from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone - the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with a slick and debauched lawyer (Mark Ruffalo), on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation. Based on the1992 novel by Alasdair Gray.
THE COLOR PURPLE
Friday, 25th April
U2 2023 - Cert 12A - 2hr 21 mins
Director: Blitz Bazawule
In 1909 Celie a black American girl is given away in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer Albert who treats her cruelly. Celie is God fearing and deliverance comes in the form of jazz singer who takes her away to another city far away from her misery. She now gets her long due happiness.
A musical drama based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker.